Irishman Lowry has US Open victory chance

 

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Irishman Shane Lowry believes his positive mental attitude has carried him into contention to land his maiden Major in the US Open Championship.
Despite a level par round of 70, the two-time European Tour champion made stealthy progress up the leaderboard as Chambers Bay bared its teeth on day three.  
Currently inside the top five on one under par, Lowry is confident he is coming to terms with Robert Trent Jones’ quirky layout, which has come in for some heavy criticism – much of it unfair, according to the genial Irishman. 
He said: “It’s very tough, but I think it’s playable. It’s been getting a lot of slack, especially the greens. They’re not the best surfaces, but if you hit a good putt nine times out of ten it goes in. 

" Sometimes you do hit a good putt and it misses, but you have to accept it and move on, rather than dwell on it.
“And it’s very tough to hit greens, but at the end of the day it’s the US Open so you can’t expect it to be easy. The leader is on four under, which you don’t normally get at a US Open. So it’s tough, but it’s not unfair. At Pinehurst last year, if you missed the green sometimes you couldn’t chip. So I think that was a little more unfair than this course is.
“A couple of months ago, some guys came and played here and I saw a few comments on Twitter. Criticising the golf course before you get here isn’t necessarily the right thing to do. When I got here on Monday I thought a few holes were a bit funky, but the more you play it, the more this course grows on you. And I think that’s one of the reasons I’m in the position I am today.”

 

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